BUFFALO, NY - The owner of a Buffalo tow truck company and two of his employees have been indicted on federal bribery charges.

The indictment handed down Wednesday comes in the wake of an FBI investigation into whether Buffalo police officers were being paid off at accident scenes to give towing calls to certain operators.

Employees of Jim Mazz Towing are accused of giving bribes to Buffalo police officers at accident scenes in order to be awarded tows, and with them the potential of lucrative collision repair work that often goes along with it.